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After waiting ages to take a DNA test, I finally got around to it recently. The results were, for the most part, what I expected.
Here's my estimate:
Asia - 85.4%
South Asian - 79.9%
West Asian (Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Caucasus, Turkey) - 4.3%
Central Asian (Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazahkstan) - 1.4%
Europe - 14.6%
North and West Europe
Irish, Scottish, and Welsh - 11.6%
Scandinavian - 3.0%
Even though these are only estimates, they give an idea of my ethnicity in a broad sense. Nonetheless 14.6% is still considered a fairly large proportion in an estimate, and in all honesty was completely unexpected. My knowledge on DNA and genealogy are probably basic at best but from what I've read such a large percentage of the European could be traced back as early as the 5th or 6th generation before me!
This estimate didn't really tell me much as I would have liked to know so I decided to use GEDmatch to get a more in-depth picture. The results were certainly interesting (Jagsaw Singh if you're still around I'm sure you'll be the most pleased). For the sake of the topic I'll mention that I'm Punjabi Jatt.
This is what I found out:
Baloch - 37.94% (The term Baloch is used here to loosely describe Persian origin)
South Indian - 29.43% (South Indian here refers to indigenous or native Indian)
NE-Euro - 11.70% (oddly the Baltic region)
Caucasian - 11.30% (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan - again part of the Greater Persian Empire)
SW-Asian - 2.28% (ambiguously referring to Persian, Caucasian, and Arabian)
Mediterranean - 2.25% (most likely Greek, Cypriot, Turkish)
The rest is negligible.
You are also given an approximation how closely you are linked and compare to the individual populations of the sampling done by the genealogists, here are the top ten from highest to lowest:
1) Punjabi-Jatt-Sikh
2) Punjabi-Jatt-Muslim
3) Punjabi-Khatri
4) Pushtikar-Brahmin
5) Kashmiri-Pandit
6) Punjabi
7) Kashmiri
8) Punjabi-Brahmin
9) Rajasthani-Brahmin
10) Singapore-Indian
What do you think? I was surprised at some of the detail it went into and some of it was actually expected - I have always explained to people how we very likely had Persian and possibly some European ancestors. Although I probably won't, personally I would love to lay claim to my Persian heritage!
Has anybody here taken a test?
What labels, if any, do I use now...Persian Jatt
I think the moral here is we shouldn't be so narrow-minded.

Waheguru ji gave us free choice now he's making sure we start following rehit of dropping intoxicants
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-gene-stop-drinking-alcohol-evolution-addiction-intolerance-health-development-a8221186.html?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook